NUFORC Sighting 60821

Occurred: 2000-09-17 16:00 Local
Reported: 2008-01-14 18:25 Pacific
Duration: 30-45 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 intensely bright, very small points of light, high in the sky, unmoving for at least 30-45 minutes

It was my niece's birthday party. We were at San Quentin village on the little beach. I looked up into perfectly clear blue sky and happened to see 3, very small points of brilliant white light.

The lower 2 seemed to be one over the other and the top light was equidistant from the other 2, but to the left, about 15 degrees. The 3 lights were "joined" by 2 very thin, black lines.

I asked my brother if he saw anything up in the sky, without showing him and he described what I saw.

I then went over to my 21 y/o niece, and without describing to her what I saw, asked her. She described the same lights.

The 3 lights were due south of San Quentin Prison, and possibly directly high over San Francisco.

It wasn't possible to estimate the distance - but they were, as best I could tell (I triangulated with a tree branch) motionless over the city (or at least in that direction).

There was an air show down in South Bay that day and 2 military jets did do a low pass over us before we saw the 3 lights.

We saw the 3 lights for 30 to 45 minutes and then as my brother and I were watching, they "seemed" to flit up and disappear.

They left no vapor trails Their light was almost lazer-like, dazzling and just a pinpoint with some slight "flaring".

I am also a pilot and can state that it wasn't a satellite, a plane, a balloon or blimp.

About a year later, I ran into my sister-in-law's brother - and - he recounted that he, from the South Bay, was working on his house on the weekend and also had seen a series of, what he proceeded to describe, as the same type of lights and about the same time of the year. He described them as "over San Francisco". So, if they were the same lights, We both, from different locations, saw them over San Francisco.

He is a pilot, also.

Posted 2008-01-21